Gather on Thursday nights in August in Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario’s oldest and most iconic natural landscape, for a unique Calling the Wolves excursion. In the open-air amphitheatre, your guides reveal the ecology of Eastern Canadian Wolves. Discover how they hunt, what they eat and how they help shape the park’s personality. Interpreters tracked the wolves’ movement earlier in the week, just a short drive away. Then the highway is closed, engines silenced and it’s time to start communing with nature. Your guides make the first call, imitating a long, low wolf howl. Stand still. Peer into the darkness. Hold your breath and wait. Even though this is a group outing, it feels like a one-on-one connection - just you and the wolf – when you hear the eerie sound of the wolves calling back. From the dark. From the wild. Expect goosebumps.

Why you should visit

Experience the pristine nature of Ontario's oldest provincial park.

Take a seat in an amphitheatre to learn how wolves hunt, play and roam.

Load up for a short drive to where the wild things are.

Gaze into the dark, starry night and listen as yellow birch leaves rustle in the breeze.

Listen intently, speak softly, step quietly.

Pay attention as your guide imitates the howls of a wolf.

Feel goosebumps when you hear the first strains of a wild wolf howling back.

Weather

While daytime temperatures in August can be 20°C to 25°C, evenings can be cool, as low as 5°C to 10°C towards the end of the month.